John Altick, e-mail: <jaltick@uci.edu>, is a Ph.D. graduate student at the
University of California, Irvine. He studies political theory, focusing on
rights theory, theories of justice, and democratic theory.

David T. Beito, email: <dbeito@bama.ua.edu>, Associate
Professor at the University of Alabama, is the author of Taxpayers in Revolt:
Tax Resistance during the Great Depression (1989) and
From Mutual Aid to
the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967
(2000). He edited The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society
(2002). He has received fellowships from the Earhart Foundation, the Olin
Foundation, and the Institute for Humane Studies. He is currently writing (with
his coauthor, Professor Linda Royster Beito of Stillman College) a biography of
Dr. T. R. M. Howard, a black civil rights pioneer, entrepreneur and mutual aid
leader. He belongs to the Liberty and Power Group Blog at the
History News Network.

Stephen Cox, Professor of
Literature and Director of the Humanities Program at the University of
California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0306,
email: <sdcox@ucsd.edu>, is the author
of, among other books, The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea
of America (Transaction Publishers).

Robert Hartford, email: <rhartford@carolina.rr.com>, received
his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and is a
software developer. His interests include the foundations of ethics and
application of epistemology and ethics to promote a culture of
self-responsibility and political freedom.

Tibor R. Machan, email: <tmachan@link.freedom.com>, holds the
R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School
of Business & Economics, Chapman University, Orange, California 29866. His most
recent book is The Morality of Business: A Profession of Wealthcare
(Springer, 2007).

Eren Ozgen, Assistant Professor of Management in Sorrell
College of Business at Troy University, Dothan, email: <eozgen@troy.edu>, has aPh.D. (2003) in management from
the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, New York. She is the author or coauthor of numerous journal and conference publications.

Stephen E. Parrish, Ph.D., email: <parris@cuaa.edu>, is
Associate Professor of Philosophy and librarian at Concordia University in Ann
Arbor. He is the author of God and Necessity (University Press of
America, 2001), and the coauthor of See the gods Fall (College Press,
1997) and The Mormon Concept of God (Edwin Mellen, 1991). He is writing
(very slowly) a book on the mind-body problem.

Fred Seddon, email: <seddon@stargate.duq.edu>, currently
holds adjunct professorships at three universities in South Western
Pennsylvania. He has been president of the West Virginia Philosophical Society
since 1988 and is an associate member of the Center for the Philosophy of
Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an international scholar and the
author of over 140 books, articles, book reviews and speeches, including such
works as Ayn Rand, Objectivists and the History of Philosophy,
An
Introduction to the Philosophical Works of F. S. C. Northrop, and
Aristotle and Lukasiewicz on the Principle of Contradiction.

Patrick Toner, Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest
University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27100, email: <tonerpj@wfu.edu>, works
in metaphysics and philosophy of religion, and has published previously in
journals such as Philosophical Studies,
The Philosophical Quarterly,
and Faith and Philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Virginia, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame's
Center for Philosophy of Religion before coming to Wake Forest.